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I WILL HAVE READ 500 BOOKS BY AGE 25

HOW & WHY I AM READING THIS MANY BOOKS UNTIL I TURN 26 IT ALL BEGAN YEARS AGO Before school, I tried to read. But I couldn’t. Neither did someone bother to teach me, nor did I bother anyone with beginning to teach me. I COULD WRITE MY NAME, YES But I also while in kindergarten frequently wrote single letters of my name still wrong. NOT EXACTLY A GENIUS Whenever I try to remember my very…

IDEAL MINIMAL MONOCHROME CAPSULE WARDROBE FROM H&M

SEARCHING FOR THE PERFECT STYLISH & MOST PRACTICAL WARDROBE OUT THERE IN ORDER TO GO MINIMAL & REDUCE DECISIONS WHEN IT COMES TO CLOTHES EVERY NOW AND THEN You buy a shirt you don’t like. Sometimes one you do like. Over the years, they all accumulate, till you have a selection of shirts, pants, socks, hats in different fits and sizes. From different brands and companies. Before buying one just…

HOW I STARTED CAPTURING MY LIFE WITH JOURNALING

HOW TO IMPLEMENT DAILY JOURNALING EASILY & CREATE A SECOND BRAIN USING ONENOTE IT ALL STARTED when I first tried time blocking. I already wrote an entire post about this topic, just search this blog for “time”. Which by the way is another hack: why not just write down all the things you think could help others in a more general form and publish them? Therefore actually not only documenting your…

DUMP YOUR BED & SLEEP ON THE FLOOR INSTEAD

WHY SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR MIGHT BE THE MINIMAL SOLUTION FOR SLEEPING YOU HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR ALL ALONG THIS THOUGHT FIRST ENTERED MY HEAD When I lived in a very small apartment, where the bed took up so much space. Just like in every apartment the bed takes up so much space. Some even say people use entire rooms just for keeping their bed in. In terms of space efficiency, THIS IS…

WHY YOU SHOULD CAPTURE YOUR THOUGHTS BY JOURNALING

HOW TO APPROACH JOURNALING IN A DIGITAL WORLD & WHAT TO GET OUT OF IT SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME ITSELF There have been folks, who were like SEEMS LIKE I FORGET STUFF I THOUGHT JUST A MOMENT BEFOREDUDE from “SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME ITSELF” THEREFORE CAPTURING THOUGHTS is, apart from eating quinoa and drinking smoothies to replace your breakfast probably something humans thought of as soon as they…

HOW FAST YOU CAN TYPE?

HOW TYPING STILL IS THE SINGLE GATEWAY SKILL INTO A LIFE DIGITALIZED MORE AND MORE UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF A DECENT HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE TRIED GOOGLE VOICE Multiple times. But as a matter of fact, you still cannot dictate something as well as you could type it. Of course, you can input a “rough cut”, but then you later have to add all the correct punctuation. Correct the mistakes you made and…

WHY USING REMINDERS & CHECKLISTS MAKES SENSE IN EVERYDAY LIFE

CHECKLISTS & REMINDERS ARE THE WAY TO GO THESE DAYS WHEN IT COMES TO REMEMBERING EVERYDAY THINGS LIKE KEYS THE ONE COMMONALITY ALMOST ALL ERRORS HAVE They’re human. Since in some industries it especially makes sense to prevent these errors from happening, since human lives directly depend on not making mistakes, these industries have developed the golden grail to reducing human errors. Flying…

TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE OPTIMAL WAY TO EAT

USING TIME MANAGEMENT & STATE OF THE ART NUTRITION THEORY TO DETERMINE HOW TO EAT NOTE: This is originally a comment on Youtube Nate O’Brian’s video about saving time. He talks about how he discovered cooking and eating multiple times a day takes up very much time. Literally had the same thing with food. What helps me [sometimes]: OMAD = ONE MEAL A DAY Probably really hard getting used to, I…

CAN YOU EVEN BREATHE, EAT & MOVE?

HOW WE HAVE TO RELEARN THE SEEMINGLY MOST SIMPLE THINGS THE FIRST RULE OF EATING IS You do not talk about it, when it doesn’t work. Since everyone can see when it doesn’t work, you don’t need to tell everyone. But the problem this creates is this: IF NO ONE TALKED ABOUT IT No one talked about it. Therefore: since most of humanity nowadays has a problem with food or rather the intake of food,…

COLLECTING YOUR LIFE’S DATA IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB EVERY SINGLE DAY

BASICS OF MEASURING & UNDERSTANDING CHANGE IN YOURSELF I STRUGGLED To find the right title for this. This idea that I carry with me for years now. This idea is not something very unique to me. But I still am trying to figure out a better way to implement it into my life. And still haven’t found a system, that works well enough to make me DO THE THINGS I gotta do, in order to get the things I…

DECLUTTER YOUR LIFE WITH THE LIFO SORTING ALGORITHM

USE IT OR LOOSE SAYS EVOLUTION, AND SO SHOULD YOU, ASSESS AN ITEMS USE PROBABILITY BY USING THE LAST IN FIRST OUT ALGORITHM I READ A BOOK ON ALGORITHMS TO LIVE BY Which was actually called: Algorithms to Live by, guess you didn’t see that coming. The thing that stuck with me from listening to this book is this: LAST IN FIRST OUT is one of the most efficient sorting algorithms available. Or…

CONSTRAINING TIME IS THE SINGLE MOST RELIABLE EFFICIENCY HACK

BASICS OF CONSTRAINING TIME, REWARDING YOURSELF ALONG THE JOURNEY, TIME BOXING OR TIME BLOCKING THERE IS ONE SINGLE THING That just keeps anyone motivated nearly. Almost endless are the stories of people pulling all-nighters before an important exam, interview, presentation. The big question of course is this WHAT DO DEALDLINES DO TO US Why are we suddenly able to focus on the thing we should…

WANT TO WATCH MORE MOVIES, SERIES, VIDEOS? TRY SPEED WATCHING, LISTENING, READING

THE BASICS OF SPEEDWATCHING & SPEEDLISTENING & HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT INTO YOUR OWN LIFE THERE IS THIS CONCEPT OF TIME And we never have enough of it. Minutes, hours, weeks, months go by, sometimes seemingly with the blink of an eye. So you probably already heard about ways to save some. By getting things done more efficiently. Therefore not needing as much time to do them. Note, that’s different…

GAMIFYING FINANCE: SEARCHING FOR THE PERFECT MONEY MAKING MACHINE

HOW TO FIND THE PERFECT MONEY MAKING MACHINE USING STATE OF THE ART KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FINANCE & INVESTING AND THEREFORE SIMPLIFYING FINANCE INTO A GAME LIFE IS A GAME Whether it is indeed the biggest simulation we will ever be able to experience for one will be dependent on us and for two if the simulation we live in actually wants us to discover we live in a simulation and that’s part of the…